Heidegger and "the way of art"

the empty origin and contemporary abstraction

Véronique Fóti

pp. 337-351

in: Continental Philosophy Review 31 (4), 1998.

Abstract

With a focus on the question of visuality in Heidegger's sustained involvement with Daoist and Zen thought, this paper discusses the interchange between Heidegger and Hisamatsu at a 1958 colloquium. In light of the key concerns – visuality, art, and the empty origin of manifestation – it interrogates three texts,"The Origin of the Work of Art,"Parmenides, and"Art and Space,"concerning visuality, the play of the glance, writing, space and place, and the Graeco-Asian though of phainesthai. In conclusion, it addresses the opening for a philosophical consideration of abstract painting that these analyses provide.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin